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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill,Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The leaders agreed to require Germany's unconditional surrender and split Germany into 4 zones.Joseph Stalin agreed to per it free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian War against Japan. -
Truman Takes Office
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End of WW2
World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers.The Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide.This where the Cold War began -
The Creation Of the United Nations
There purpose was to maintain international peace and security; to foster cooperation in solving international economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems; to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; to develop friendly relations among nations -
The Long Telegraph
George Kennan, an embassy official wrote the Long Telegraph outlining his opinions and views of the Soviets -
Iron Curtain
The national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed political events in Eastern Europe in 1989 -
Truman Doctrine
Was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
The Red Scare
the rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government. The scare was caused by fear of subversion by communist in the United Sates after the Russian Revolution -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Soviet Union try to attempt to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post Word War 2 jurisdictions in West Berlin. In response to that, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. -
The Creation of NATO
NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies -
McCarthyism
Is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence -
The Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet- backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro- Western Republic of Korea to the south -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover is a method of personal protection against effects of a nuclear explosion.The American public was nervous. They were aware of the destruction that individual atomic bombs did to the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
The Rosenbergs
In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War ll. -
Eisenhower takes Office
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Marshall Plan
Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United states gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the end of World War 2 -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. The signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe -
Eisenhower Doctrine
A country could request American economic assistance and/ or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state -
U-2 Incident
Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile. CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers has been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia -
The Suez Canal
The catalyst for the joint Israeli-British-French attack on Egypt was the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egyptian leader Gamal Abel Nasser.
